Posted by rrlund on July 15, 2011 at 16:45:42 from (207.241.137.116):
I've got two calves here that must have'em,but they've just about exhausted them. One wouldn't suck the cow,had the vet out back in April to rehydrate him. I tube fed him for 7 weeks,then weaned him and put him back out on pasture. We had two and a half inches of rain back three weeks or so ago and a whole bunch of slop ran out of the feedlot and he got down in it. When I found him,all I could see was his head,and that was sinking. I dragged him out and when I pulled him around a wooden corner post,I tore a big gouge down his spine on some barbed wire around the post. I got him in a pen and nursed him back to health. He got under a gate about two weeks ago and was out in the yard eating grass,so I put him back out in the pasture,skinny as a rail,but alive. Then there was the other one. Born about 5 days before that one. The mother abandoned her. She was pretty dehydrated by the time I realized she wasn't being fed,but I nursed her back to health. I penned her in the barn with the other one and she did great. I pail broke her so I didn't have to use a bottle. Weaned her and put her out on pasture when I put the other one out. Day before yesterday,the cows all huddled up in the barn in the heat,knocked her down in the manure and layed on her. Ground her head right in to the crap. I dragged her out,took her in the barn and got her to stand up. I'd thought she'd go right for the water,but she went for the grain. A while later she was still in it,so I took it away so she didn't get acidosis. Thought I'd dodged the bullet,but yesterday morning,she was sprawled out,looked dead. Got her tipped up and have been tubing milk replacer in to her. Gave her a shot of Micotil. She's still hanging on,but in this heat,I got the other one back in with her before something happens to HIM again. Sometimes you just wonder why you didn't have sense enough to shoot them in the first place?
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